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pam_unix_account(5)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES

NAME

pam_unix_account- PAM account management module for UNIX

SYNOPSIS

pam_unix_account.so.1

DESCRIPTION

pam_unix_account provides functionality to the PAM account management stack. The function pam(3PAM) function retrieves password aging information from the repositories specified in nsswitch.conf(4), and verifies that the user's account and password have not expired.

The following options can be passed to the module:

debug

syslog(3C) debugging information at the LOG_DEBUG level

nowarn

Turn off warning messages

RETURN VALUES

The following values are returned:

PAM_SUCCESS

Successfully obtains authentication token

PAM_NEW_AUTHTOK_REQD

Obtain new authentication token from the user

PAM_AUTHTOK_EXPIRED

Password expired and no longer usable

PAM_BUF_ERR

Memory buffer error

PAM_SERVICE_ERR

Error in underlying service module

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability	Evolving
MT Level	MT-Safe with exceptions

SEE ALSO

pam(3PAM), pam_authenticate(3PAM), syslog(3C), libpam(3LIB), pam.conf(4), nsswitch.conf(4), attributes(5), pam_authtok_check(5), pam_authtok_get(5), pam_authtok_store(5), pam_dhkeys(5), pam_passwd_auth(5), pam_unix(5), pam_unix_auth(5), pam_unix_session(5)

NOTES

The interfaces in libpam(3LIB) are MT-Safe only if each thread within the multi-threaded application uses its own PAM handle.

The pam_unix(5) module might not be supported in a future release. Similar functionality is provided by pam_authtok_check(5), pam_authtok_get(5), pam_authtok_store(5), pam_dhkeys(5), pam_passwd_auth(5), pam_unix_account(5), pam_unix_auth(5), and pam_unix_session(5).

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES